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seamonkeydcc · Post by **seamonkeydcc** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:22 am

should have some time to get cables tomorrow. will any midi interface work, or do you need to get the yamaha UX-16? I was thinking of finding one of these: http://www.adm-it.co.uk/index.php?page= ... &Itemid=27

or go OLD-SKOOL and get one of these:
http://www.stagebeat.co.uk/product.php?product_id=6207

am i being too cheap?

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:49 am

The ez-ag has midi in and midi out jacks. Anything midi will work. I used to use a m-audio midi to usb cable, now i use a standard midi cable that goes into a soundcard.

seamonkeydcc · Post by **seamonkeydcc** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:40 am

cool, thanks.

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:37 am

uppercase wrote:Only got 2 cool ice cubes out of five. Looks like the hunt for another midi controller may begin

Well, I'm pretty happy with my ez-ag. Tonight, while watching some penguin movie on tv, I recorded a little one man jam and had actually some good fun.
Everything is played with the ez (except the drums), didn't clean up the glitches, after all it's a live jam. http://www.homepage.hispeed.ch/mbncp/do ... 20Band.mp3

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:34 am

That's pretty out there! Reminds me of the jazz I played in high school, I played guitar in jazz band for 2 years.

mbncp wrote:
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Well, I'm pretty happy with my ez-ag. Tonight, while watching some penguin movie on tv, I recorded a little one man jam and had actually some good fun.
Everything is played with the ez (except the drums), didn't clean up the glitches, after all it's a live jam. http://www.homepage.hispeed.ch/mbncp/do ... 20Band.mp3

CapnLockheed · Post by **CapnLockheed** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:59 am

mbncp wrote:
uppercase wrote:Only got 2 cool ice cubes out of five. Looks like the hunt for another midi controller may begin
Well, I'm pretty happy with my ez-ag. Tonight, while watching some penguin movie on tv, I recorded a little one man jam and had actually some good fun.
Everything is played with the ez (except the drums), didn't clean up the glitches, after all it's a live jam. http://www.homepage.hispeed.ch/mbncp/do ... 20Band.mp3

Loungerrific!!

Cheers.....CL

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:47 pm

Great stuff, Marc.

- m

manytone · Post by **manytone** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:56 pm

Hi Marc
Great EZ guitar playing! Love the Bass line, and a nice jam it is. Very nice stuff.
I think it is awesome that you did this on your EZ-AG.
Paul
(who still needs to install the EZ-Suite and break out his EZ-AG again)

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:22 pm

Thanks, but I'm cheating a bunch here

First the whole ez is tuned in C Major, and I have extra plugs in each track that will convert to some different key/scale. In this case the scale triggers where already programmed in the sequencer, but I can also do it in realtime using the foot pedal.
Then I mute the open strings and in the case of the bass I was just kind of strumming to play the faster lines, and 2-3 strings at the same time, but if you are clean on the fretboard, only one is playing, thanks to the muted open strings.
And the new "filter doubles" setting helps also here.
Well my technique isn't perfect yet, but I can see some good fun potential here.
I love that MIDI stuff

uppercase · Post by **uppercase** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:05 pm

Thats very cool Marc, nice jam, that impressive use of the EZ and your musical skills. I meant the other 2 controllers not the EZ that I was going to have to look for, I wasn't very clear. Me too, I'm also very happy with my EZ. Thank you for all the dev work you did on the Midix ocx, I hadn't realized you had authored this (you can expect a donation shortly). And thank you Markleford I've just started using your scripts and they are excellent (also expect a donation shortly).

I've got my Boss GT-8 processing pitch bends and modulation, but I had to slightly hack the script. I use the midi merge, two separate midi interfaces. I could only get the GT-8 to send Mode change messages (176) regardless of using the expression pedal or the ctrl button. Seems like an unnecessary mod to the script to me but I have been unable to find another way around it.

I post this only so that it may help someone else. If I find a solution I'll edit this post.

So I send expression pedal on CC11 and Ctrl Button CC1.

Modification in ezSystem.js

function On_MidiMerge...

//***begin mod
msgtype = 224; //pitch bend

if ( dat1 == 1 ) {
msgtype = 176; //modulation
}
//***end mod
OutputMidiMsg( ...

arturito · Post by **arturito** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:10 pm

hi Markleford,
thank you so much for midi-programming the ezeg suite. I am a composer from the Netherlands, and I have been searching for a midiguitar my whole live. Normaly I compose on a keyboard and bring the music out on paper for my musicians (old school way). Accualy my main instrument is guitar and so this ezeg saves me a whole lot of time. But without your programming it would be useless.
I use Qbase sx 3 and halion with the ezeg. Sometimes the sounds has a break (stops), when I play, but continues after a split second, do you know what that could be?
In this thread a read a lot about marc's programming. But I can't find it. Does it has other functions than your suite? Do you know where I can find it?
I want to make a donation but this paypal is not accepted by my dutch bank, is there an other way?
Thank You

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:55 am

I've used my Ez guitar with both the hta scripts and the vst suite and never had the notes stop then start up after a delay?

Except for when I tried to run high-cpu vst's. At any rate, the various hta scripts or the guitar are surely not to blame unless you went swimming with it earlier.

arturito · Post by **arturito** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:29 pm

ok runbeer, but do u think halion with a 10mb instrument is a high cpu-vst? (my computer is fast and well configurated)
Btw where can I get this hta scipts?

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:38 pm

I have never heard this "continue after delay" bug either. Most likely I would say it could come from Cubase using both ports for the original MIDI device *and* the virtual device with the EZ scripts at the same time: you should have Cubase ignore the physical/hardware port as an input if you're using the scripts.

I'm not sure where Marc's scripts can be found these days, but his indeed do some things mine won't. Then again, I think mine does some things that his doesn't, since I've done some work on smoothing and "centering" of the whammy-bar data values (I think Marc still has the EZ-AG only).

I've promised more work on the EZ suite for a long time, but I have not had time yet! Soon, always "soon"...

Anyway, don't worry if you can't donate. I don't have any other way right now, but it's nice knowing that you at least feel that it's worthy!

- m

arturito · Post by **arturito** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:03 pm

Tanx, i'll try that tommorow, when i'm back in my studio

My high strings (B and E) are more "sloppy" than the other strings. Is that also the case with yours?
I was calling around the world to get an EZAG. It's hard to get one. Yamaha stopped producing them. I got one second-hand in Rotterdam. And I ordered one at http://www.normans.co.uk/. They claim to have the last shipment from Yamaha.
So ..
be fast.

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